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Trump's Embrace of Fossil Fuels Threatens National Security | Opinion (barf)
Newsweak ^ | Jan 21, 2025 | Raúl Grijalva and Michael Shank

Posted on 01/21/2025 1:46:02 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

With 2024 going down as the globe's hottest year on record, and with devastating fires in California signaling a new climate-changing normal, President Donald Trump and his administration are doing exactly the thing a warming planet doesn't need. Trump is withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, again.

Ten years ago, 195 countries thought it prudent to protect their populations from the increasingly deadly consequences of climate change. And that's why they joined the Paris Agreement, to work together to limit fossil-fueled global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius if possible. That warming limit was breached in 2024 for the first time ever. And yet President Trump seems willing to put Americans in harm's way again.

Harm's way is getting more harmful by the year, with worsening heat waves, droughts, floods, fires, and storms. Climate change poses a clear and present danger, as fires on the West Coast and hurricanes in the Southeast have illustrated in the past year.

The security implications, then, of backing out of the Paris Agreement are dire. Thanks to the air pollution caused in large part by fossil fuels, 7 million people around the world die early each year......

For these reasons above—including the devastating economic and diplomatic consequences that come from ignoring an international consensus, and the humanitarian consequences of tens of millions of refugees migrating from countries devastated by climate change—it would be national security negligence for the White House to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. Over 1 billion people are expected to become climate refugees by 2050.

The less we burn, the more lives we save. It's that simple. And the Paris Agreement is the international venue to do that—to address climate-security threats before they spiral out of control, to mitigate this clear and present danger to our planet.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barf; climatechange; climatecretins; energy; fearmongering; globalwarming; goebbelswarming; gorebullwarming; michaelshank; nationalsecurity; newsweak; parisaccord; raulgrijalva; satanicgases; theyarethatsimple; weaknews; werethatsimple
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Newsweak neglects to mention that the Senate has not voted to accept the treaty.
1 posted on 01/21/2025 1:46:02 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Raúl Grijalva and Michael Shank - Dumbasses.


2 posted on 01/21/2025 1:49:00 PM PST by Common Sense 101
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They think national security is a winning buzzword. Because Trump has successfully used it.


3 posted on 01/21/2025 1:49:25 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Trump's embrace of fossil fuels

I could embrace coal, but oil would just slip through my fingers.

4 posted on 01/21/2025 1:50:25 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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Meanwhile, Germans are instructed to not run clothes washing machines, dishwashers, stoves, ovens, dryers, electric heaters, vacuum cleaners or charge EVs or laptops between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. They are told that will "reduce costs and CO2."
5 posted on 01/21/2025 1:52:21 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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Harm's way is getting more harmful by the year, with worsening heat waves, droughts, floods, fires, and storms. Climate change poses a clear and present danger, as fires on the West Coast and hurricanes in the Southeast have illustrated in the past year.

You're always going to find severe weather events that you can point to as harbingers for a theoretical global warming trend.

6 posted on 01/21/2025 1:54:09 PM PST by Tallguy
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Just the opposite....lack of fossil fuels threatens National Security.....Jeeps, tanks, airplanes...

Fill up the reserve....now...

7 posted on 01/21/2025 1:55:54 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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Article begins with a litany of lies ...


8 posted on 01/21/2025 1:56:45 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Common Sense 101

Please don’t insult dumbasses by comparing them to Raúl Grijalva and Michael Shank!!!


9 posted on 01/21/2025 1:57:26 PM PST by PortugeeJoe
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-10F last night....


10 posted on 01/21/2025 1:57:29 PM PST by Paladin2
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Whose national security?


11 posted on 01/21/2025 1:58:12 PM PST by Raycpa
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Maybe Trump should have a summit conference with Greta Thunberg. Maybe she can educate him..

Sarcasm......


12 posted on 01/21/2025 1:59:26 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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They sound like little children...As if their preschool teachers told them that the sky is falling. “OMG!...Are you SERIOUS?”


13 posted on 01/21/2025 2:00:26 PM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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Sure...

Because it’s much better to drive EVs that rely on China for the rare earth elements needed to manufacture the electric motors.

After all - the fossil fuels will run out some day but the supply of rare earth elements is infinite...

/s


14 posted on 01/21/2025 2:01:10 PM PST by Iron Munro (Obi-Wan Kenobi : Who's the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?)
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fossil-fueled global warming is a complete hoax.

China and India create more pollution that we could ever hope to. Slashing our throats over “climate change” only helps China.


15 posted on 01/21/2025 2:01:23 PM PST by Texas resident (AMF to BHO)
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I see that an all night snowstorm is forecast tonight--in Savannah!

I think I saw where New Orleans also had a snowstorm.

When do you suppose Global Warming will kick in?

16 posted on 01/21/2025 2:02:29 PM PST by Savage Beast (Leave them to heaven. Let truth be the judge and the chronicle history the penalty.)
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“Over 1 billion people are expected to become climate refugees by 2050.”

So in a nutshell Europe, Canada and the United States will be invaded by 1 billion people and we have to sit back and take it because we created the problem.

Nice logic.


17 posted on 01/21/2025 2:03:43 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Total crap.


18 posted on 01/21/2025 2:03:51 PM PST by Agatsu77
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To: Common Sense 101

Grijalva was involved with La Raza. His father was a hard-working legal immigrant from Mexico. Grijalva became a Congressman, and IMHO he should be very thankful to be in a nation in which there is so much opportunity (or at least was, until his party screwed us).


19 posted on 01/21/2025 2:06:10 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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“Trump’s Embrace of Fossil Fuels Threatens National Security”

It might be true! In 75 to 100 years from now... maybe. It’ll take that long to transition to the next required infrastructure to support whatever the next latest & greatest energy’s source turns out to be.

Whatever the genius Guru soothsayers are predicting there’s one thing I’ve noticed that many have in common. They have no concept of the timeline that is probably going to dictate the implantation of their fantasies large scale.


20 posted on 01/21/2025 2:14:07 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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